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Doug Stipanicev is accused of sending anti-vax and antisemitic material.
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Davis Polk, Simpson Thacher and Big Four Japanese Firms Advise on Tokyo Metro's $2.2B IPO

The transaction is expected to be the largest public float in Japan since SoftBank's $21 billion share sale in 2018, overtaking KKR-owned Kokusai Electric's $750 million listing last year.
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Paul Jebely will continue to be based in Hong Kong and will be travelling extensively around Asia, the Middle East and North America to see and deal with clients.
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Senior partners have been encouraged to retire early, while capital markets and M&A teams also have been cut as deal work dries up. A Law.com analysis of Hong Kong Law Society data shows just how dramatic those cuts have been over the past year.
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Freshfields Scraps 'Bruckhaus Deringer' From Name

The new brand will start to be rolled out from October, with the firm undergoing a formal name change.
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Gibson Dunn Cuts Half of Singapore Partnership, Four Partners Set to Leave

The move, which leaves the firm with three partners who are solely based in Singapore, comes in contrast to the steady influx into the city-state in recent years.
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Yingke to Follow London Launch with 100 International Offices by 2026

The world's largest law firm by headcount said it intends to have 15 European offices by 2026, and is in the process of adding a Munich office.
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Singapore Former Transport Minister Pleads Guilty to Bribery, Awaits Sentencing

Justice Vincent Hoong will give his sentencing decision on October 3, 2024.
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Singapore's Chief Justice Urges Firms To Build Sustainable Workplaces to Retain Young Talent

Recent data pins poor work-life balance, workplace culture and excessive workload as the key factors influencing young lawyers in the city-state to exit firms or legal practice altogether.
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Going Against the Grain, UK 50 Firm DAC Beachcroft Launches New Office and Association in Hong Kong

Hong Kong will mark the firm's second office in Asia. It launched one in Singapore in 2011.
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Kirkland and Freshfields Act on $1B Acquisition of Stake in BP Pipelines TAP

Both firms fielded teams featuring several partners.
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AIA Australia's General Counsel Conducts an Artificial Intelligence Experiment

At a time when GCs are increasingly being asked to do more and there never seems to be enough time, Kristy Redfern says AI is saving her as much as two hours a day.
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Video: Editors Analyze The Global 200

Topics included a debate about which law firms would make it into a 'global elite'.
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Nintendo, Pokémon Co. Sue Japanese Game Developer for Patent Infringement

Earlier this month, Pokémon won a $15 million suit in Shenzhen intermediate courts against Chinese game developers over the game Pocket Monster Reissue.
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The Global 200 Rankings Explained: Sign Up for the Webinar

The one-hour session at 9am Eastern Time (2pm BST) Thursday 19 September will see the panelists discuss the trends of the last financial year and the implications for the future.
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Challenge to TikTok Ban-or-Sale Law Faces Scrutiny at US Appeals Court

Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan pressed TikTok on whether a company based outside of the United States can bring a speech restriction challenge to a federal regulation.
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CAM, Khaitan, Linklaters Score Roles on Year's Largest Indian IPO

The uptick in India's IPO activity has generated big capital markets work for firms in the region.
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DLA Piper Boosts Employment and Real Estate Offering In Japan With Senior Partner Hires

The hires follow a series of high-profile movements across the firm's offices in Asia, including securing a fund finance specialist from Mayer Brown in Singapore last week.
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Chinese Regulators Issue PwC With Fine and Suspension Over Evergrande Failures

The fines and business suspension marks the most severe action taken against any accounting firm by Chinese regulators.
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Chinese Law Firms Are in Trouble as Downward Spiral Show No Signs of Easing

More than half of the firms that make up the China 45 have seen gross revenue decline in 2023.
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The 2024 Global 200: The Year Law Firms Had to Get Smart (And Ruthless)

Despite a 10-year low for worldwide M&A activity profit per equity partner at the top firms grew by 12.4%, as they pruned their equity ranks and closed offices.
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The 2024 Global 100 Ranked by Profits Per Equity Partner

The 100 largest law firms in the world saw profit increase following a decline the previous year.
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The 2024 Global 200: The Largest Firms in the Asia Pacific Ranked By Head Count

The majority of the 50 largest law firms in the region are based in mainland China.
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Even in a Down Market, APAC Firms Are Not Giving Up on Scale

The majority of the 50 largest law firms in the region are based in mainland China.
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The 2024 Global 200: The Top 45 Chinese Firms, Ranked By Gross Revenue, RPL and PEP

More than half of the top 45 Chinese law firms saw a decline in revenue.
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Baker McKenzie's Korea Joint Venture Law Firm Launches Tax Practice with Team Hire

A team of three joins Baker McKenzie from Big Six Korea firm Kim & Chang.
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Latest Law Firm Office Closures Are Just the Beginning

Moves by A&O Shearman and Hogan Lovells show Big Law's strategy has changed, with the relative importance of smaller markets diminishing, explains the Global Lawyer
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Hogan Lovells Exits Australia Amid Legal Sector Boom, Falling Short of Ambitions

Big deals were few and far between in the Sydney office.
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Lawyers Remain Responsible for Misuse of AI Tools, Says Singapore Legal Tech Panel

Lawyers' duties and responsibilities won't change with AI, as the ultimate responsibility of what is presented to clients or in court lies with them, experts say.
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Loeb & Loeb Hires 17 From Perkins Coie in Beijing

Partners James Zimmerman and Scott Palmer join Loeb & Loeb from Perkins Coie, along with 15 other lawyers, paralegals and IP specialists.
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Hogan Lovells to Close Offices in Sydney, Johannesburg and Warsaw

The office closings affect about 65 attorneys, including 11 partners, and 58 support staff.
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Dentons & Dacheng Lawyers Probe Suspected $20M Credit Fraud in China

Dentons and Dacheng are investigating 13 projects in China on behalf of Germany's environment agency.
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Singapore Law Firms Partner With AI Startups to Develop Legal Tech Capabilities

A slew of collaborations between government bodies, private law firms and technology companies were announced at TechLaw Fest.
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Singapore's Flagship Legal Research Portal Gets AI Boost

The government-backed upgraded legal research tool, LawNet AI, contains a huge repository of content and is designed to help lawyers in the city-state do research more efficiently.
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India's Capital Markets Work Continues To Surge, Top Firms Drive Listings 

The listings come as part of a robust IPO pipeline in India, which lawyers expect will continue to generate big work for firms towards the tail-end of 2024 and early 2025.
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Mayer Brown Funds Partner Set to Join DLA Piper in Singapore

The news follows the exit of two lawyers from DLA Piper to K&L Gates' Singapore office, K&L Gates Straits Law in July.
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A&O Shearman, Freshfields, Milbank and Latham Among Advisers for Multimillion Dollar M&A in Malaysia and Philippines 

The regional advisers on the deal also include Baker McKenzie affiliate Wong & Partners, and Philippine law firms, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan and Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos.
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Thailand's Chandler MHM Names Next Chairman And Co-Managing Partner

The changes are to help steer the firm's next phase of innovation and expansion.
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Malaysia Defeats $15B Sultanate 'Heirs' Claim in Netherlands; Case Moves to France

UK-based litigation finance firm Therium's strategy and financial backing for the claimants has sparked calls to regulate third-party funding in the EU.
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Perkins Coie Shutters Beijing Office

Perkins Coie will close its office in Beijing as it shifts focus to operations in Shenzhen.
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Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.

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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.

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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.

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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.

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Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.

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